Quotes About Athletics

The biggest challenge of my career has always been to improve my timing, and it will always be so.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.

What I will say though is that I've got quite a big back, from doing pull-ups, and that will make your punches more solid. But in terms of the hardness of your punch, it's about timing and speed.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

I am happy with the way I hit the ball. There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 per cent timing and 20 per cent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing?

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

It's funny, because not everyone can make the NBA, but timing and being in the right situation is something that can make or break someone or a team.

Weichel hits very hard and is very good with the timing of his attacks.

Distance is everything, in a fight. When you lose your distance, you lose your timing.

When you're running a route, timing is everything. You have an internal clock - a timer that goes off in your mind that tells you that you need to be ready for the ball - and you have to get to your spot on time.

Skating is really hard, especially women's skating where we're judged in little tiny dresses.

Growing up with four older brothers, we were into everything! They started snowboarding when I was just a tiny button, and I loved watching them shredding in the backyard. After seeing them compete in a few contests, it was all over. I idolized the sport from day one.

McGregor has a good punch, but he cannot say that he's the biggest puncher. MMA gloves are tiny - four ounces - so when they connect, they drop you.

We definitely do a lot of tip drills at practice and try to work on your hand-eye coordination and stuff like that.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

If you're the strongest man on the planet, you ought to be able to pick up a stone or flip a tire.

When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.

You can't be Allen Iverson on a football team. And even Iverson got run out of Philadelphia when he was still a spectacular talent because the Sixers got tired of the headache and his bad attitude.

I'm getting tired of 10.7s. I just want to put a good race together, and hopefully in the next race, I get the time I'm working for. I definitely think a 10.6 is there. Hopefully I will get it together.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

Like everyone I am sometimes tired, but if I need to run I will try to run.

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.